Tomato and Pepper Diseases

Get the latest Tomato and Pepper Diseases news, research and developments covering fungal, bacterial and viral diseases affecting these important vegetable crops. Coverage includes disease outbreaks, diagnostics, resistant varieties, crop protection, biological control, pathogen surveillance and integrated disease management.

Major diseases include bacterial spot, bacterial canker, bacterial wilt, early and late blight, Fusarium and Verticillium wilts, powdery mildew, gray mold and viral diseases such as tomato spotted wilt virus and tomato yellow leaf curl virus. Many pathogens affect both crops, while disease pressure is strongly influenced by temperature, humidity, rainfall, irrigation, crop residues and infected seed or transplants.

Find updates on disease-resistant breeding, fungicides and bactericides, biopesticides, diagnostics, disease forecasting and emerging pathogen strains. Recent research has highlighted resistance-breaking strains of tomato spotted wilt virus affecting resistance genes in both tomato and pepper, while new multispectral datasets are being developed to support early detection of tomato brown rugose fruit virus.